Wilkinson RG. The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage? In: Daedalus. (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences). 1994; 123 (4):61-77

Wilkinson reviews the so-called epidemiologic transition, in which the diseases of affluence in poor countries become the diseases of poverty in rich countries, [or as Paul Basch suggested, diseases of young bowels become diseases of old arteries]. He documents the income distribution health relationship and discusses the psychosocial aspects of this association. He argues that the quality of life is better served by reducing relative poverty and narrowing income distribution than by haphazard economic growth.

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